A middle school in Birmingham is structuring same sex classes. I can understand why this might be a benefit to girls. Girls are inherently secretive. They won't talk in class about the secret crush they have on a boy or any female problems they may have. From a male perspective, I don't see the benefit. Sometimes being in class with girls was the best part of the class.

One student said that he liked the classes because he got to sit with his friends and talk to them. How is this different from a regular class? When I was in school, I always sat with my friends and talked. We didn't care who sat nearby. We talked as if we were the only people in the room (and probably scared the girls away in the process). We acted like boys. That was just our nature.

Is it now a bad thing to act like a boy? Who are the boys that are afraid to be themselves in a mixed sex classroom? Has our politically correct society corrupted boys?